Shima Kanko Hotel the Classic

An ideal retreat away from it all!

Opened in 1950, Shima Kanko Hotel The Classic is well known in Japan as one of the best classic hotels in the country. Located at a hill in the Ise Shima Green Reserve, overlooking Ago bay the hotel offers magnificent views of Ago bay.

A resort hotel of the old tradition with impeccable service, Shima kanko Hotel was the hotel of choice of late the Showa Emperor who stayed there five times.


Shima Kanko Hotel is also renowned for its French Seafood cuisine. Typical menus include kuro awabi (disk abalone), spiny Ise lobsters and other seafood caught locally. Do not miss to enjoy the hotels's trade mark lobster soup. If necessary you could take home same in canned form too. ... [+] More

Watching beautiful sunsets at the hotel's roof observatory or at the coffee shop's outdoor terrace, strolling in the manicured garden (with an outdoor pool at the edge, open only in summer months) or walking the pathway down to the private dock at the shore where you can sit and watch pearl cultivators at work on their rafts, Shima Kanko Hotel offers you the many opportunities to discover a different Japan.

Guest rooms at Shima Kanko Hotel offer views of the bay and are spacious, and despite periodic updating, they retain a pleasant old-fashioned, '50s atmosphere with their shoji screens and wooden furniture tastefully decorated with local pearls and paper patterns.

Enjoy exquisitely arranged Japanese seafood straight from the sea nearby or at French restaurant, abalone steaks or Matzuzaka beef, good or better as Kobe Beef that melt in your mouth as a soft marshmellow.
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Facilities:
3 restaurants; lounge; outdoor pool w/children's slides (free for hotel guests); spa; concierge; souvenir shop; room service (8-9:30pm); in-room massage; next-day laundry/dry-cleaning service

Nearby attractions: Ise Jingu shrine, Toba Aquarium, Marine museum, Wedded rocks, Beach

Shima Kanko Hotel is a brif walk from Kashikojima Railway Station of the Kintetsu Line. Free shuttle is available from station to hotel